Kerry will win the patriot game

[dArKeR]

Since the onset of the Cold War, the Republicans have attempted to taint the Democrats as unpatriotic, in league with America's enemies, without and within. With the Cold War's end, one of the central organizing principles of the Republican political strategy dissolved. But in the aftermath of Sept. 11, US President George W. Bush and his political adviser Karl Rove have reanimated the patriot game, and Democrats have been conflated with terrorists and tyrants.

The founding father of the Republican patriot game was the late president Richard Nixon, whose career was borne along by impugning the patriotism of Democratic opponents and uncovering subversives whom he claimed represented the heart of the new deal. His relentless ambition, however, was thwarted when he found himself confronted by a war hero, John Kennedy. In 1960, the game was over. But the Vietnam war gave Nixon the platform for his resurrection. Once he became president, the game of smearing the Democrats was reinvented as he set Vietnam veterans and hard hat, blue-collar workers against war protesters.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2004/02/14/2003098729

I don't understand the cartoon at this link.

[Alinsky]

1. Good point

And from the 1960s labor lost if not all power in the political arena today. Most on the left knew that unions were not for the poor but the Middle Class. And today all those fired workers came to the antiwar camp with still all that despair of the world, and they tried to use anti war dissent tactics, by adopting the tactics of the left or so they thought. 10 million people were allowed to march, because they were sheeple.

If it was 10 million liberals, and progressives there would of been no war. Real antiwar protestors know how to stop wars. They stopped the Vietnam War.

Being a liberal and a pacifists has nothing to do with having millions of people marching on the street. Non-violence and dissent gets its power from having the principles of non-violence and dissent, and one does not need a union card to belong.

For example the Unions in Miami used the protest tactics not of the left but of the right. In fact in Miami the FTAA protest in fact helped the right wing now, all protest is banned forever in the future in Miami.

Why? Because the labor movement from the 60s is not the dissent movement of the modern age.Dissent and non-violence is the most powerful force in the universe and it is not mass people million man march powered, but rather principle powered.